STEELCOATPAINTING COMPANY
Structural steel & bridge painting · Tri-State area

We paint the steel the Tri-State rides on.

Steelcoat is a union bridge painting contractor serving the Tri-State area. Our crews have spent more than 15 years preparing and coating elevated transit structures, bridges and structural steel across the region, most of it over live track and open traffic.

Invite us to bid Our transit work
Elevation · elevated transit structureLeft of work face: as found · right: coated
Field experience
15+ yrs
Trade
Bridge & structural steel painting
Labor
Union shop
Ownership
Woman-owned · NJ MWBE
Region
Tri-State area
Specialty
Elevated transit & bridges
Elevated transit

Painting over a railroad that never stops.

Elevated subway and rail structures are some of the hardest steel in the region to paint. We work alongside track, power and systems contractors, inside the owner's outage windows, and hand the structure back on time.

  • A
    Shields before steelCable-supported deck shields go up under the structure first, so nothing reaches the street, the sidewalk or the cars below.
  • B
    Top flanges during track replacementWhen rails and ties come off, the tops of stringers and girders are exposed for the first time in decades. We scrape and coat them before new track goes down.
  • C
    Scheduled around outagesCrews plan to the prime contractor's look-ahead schedules and mobilize fast when the owner grants a track outage.
Services

One trade, done completely.

We paint steel structures. Everything else we do, from rigging to containment to paperwork, exists so the coating goes on right and the structure stays in service.

Bridge & structural steel painting

Complete multi-coat systems, zone and spot painting, and overcoating of existing systems on highway, river and rail bridges and on structural steel.

Typical systemsZinc / epoxy / urethane
Fast-dry single coat
Overcoat systems

Elevated transit structures

Painting and preservation of elevated subway and rail structures, performed inside the owner's track outages and right-of-way rules, coordinated with track, power and systems contractors.

MembersStringers · girders
Columns · bents · bracing
Top flanges at track replacement

Surface preparation

Hand and power tool cleaning, scraping and abrasive blasting to the cleanliness and profile the specification calls for, with each surface inspected before coating starts.

SSPC standardsSP 2 · SP 3 hand & power tool
SP 11 power tool to bare metal
SP 10 near-white blast

Shielding, containment & access

Cable-supported shield and deck platforms, debris and overspray containment, and the rigging to reach the work safely over streets, track and water.

ProtectsTraffic & pedestrians below
Live track & systems
Waterways & neighbors

Maintenance painting programs

Condition surveys, touch-up and zone painting on a schedule, so owners extend coating life and put off full removal and recoating for years.

DeliverablesCondition reports
Prioritized zones
Documented DFT readings
Who we are

Fifteen years on the steel.

The people who run Steelcoat's work have been painting bridges and elevated structures across the Tri-State area for more than 15 years.

That time was spent on the hard end of the trade: blasting and scraping steel that has been rusting for decades, hanging containment over traffic and track, and working inside tight outage windows where the structure goes back into service on schedule no matter what.

We tell owners and general contractors exactly what we can do and when we can do it. Then we show up and do it. That is how a painting contractor earns repeat work in the Tri-State area.

Safety & compliance

Everyone goes home.

Painting steel at height, over traffic and next to energized rail is dangerous work. These rules are how we do it without incident, and they are not negotiable on our jobs.

Worker in a hard hat and full fall-protection harness
Full harness, tied off, every time.
At height

100% tie-off

Fall protection is in use whenever a worker is exposed to a fall, on every platform, float and member.

Every shift

Plan before tools

A job hazard analysis is reviewed with the crew at the start of each shift, before anyone climbs.

Rail right-of-way

Track rules first

Our crews work under the owner's track access, flagging and protection procedures and train for the right-of-way before they set foot on it.

Transit programs

Drug & alcohol testing

An FTA drug and alcohol testing program under 49 CFR Part 655 covers our safety-sensitive transit work.

Old coatings

Lead handled by the rules

Existing coatings are tested before they are disturbed. Where lead is present, work follows OSHA's lead in construction standard, 29 CFR 1926.62.

Below the work

Nothing falls

Shields, tarps and containment keep debris, dust and paint off the street, the track and the water.

Credentials

Ready for public-owner work.

  • Minority & Women Business Enterprise (MWBE)Certified by the State of New Jersey under N.J.A.C. 17:46
    NJ certified
  • Woman-ownedOwned and led by a woman
    100%
  • Union laborStructural Steel & Bridge Painters, Local 806
    Local 806
  • InsuranceCertificates of insurance available on request
    Fully insured
Elevated train tracks leading toward a city skyline at sunset
Bids & inquiries

Have steel that needs paint?

Phone
(908) 772-4188
Call now
Serving
New York & New Jersey
Bid requests

Invite us to bid

Send the drawings, specs and schedule through our bid request form. It takes about three minutes, and you can attach files or a plan-room link.

  • Project location and type of structure
  • Scope of work and approximate quantities
  • Bid due date and work windows or outages
  • Owner requirements: MWBE, OCIP, certified payroll

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